Happy Mother's Day

Me and Alice

First year as a Grandmother too :)

Wishing all the Mothers, Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers a wonderful Mother's Day

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Another little milestone and a layout

This morning, as Claire was going to have breakfast, we decided to try sitting Alice in her highchair and see how she got on.

 I think she liked being higher up and more on a level with the rest of us. She also got to try a little bit of Farley's rusk but,again, we weren't sure if she'd manage it. We were ready to fish it out her mouth if she started choking but when she bit a piece off she seemed to manage because it melts fairly quickly in her mouth. Before long she'll be sitting there with finger foods while we have our meals!

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I was watching Hugh with Alice this morning and it made me remember him at 8 when Emily was a baby. He's always been so good with little ones and he loves playing with Alice so I decided that would be my next layout.

I made up my template so that I could get the journalling in the right place and then printed out the journalling onto my background before sticking on the photos and patterned paper. I used a corner rounder on the paper to finish it off and I like the way it turned out. Now I have another template for future use too.  

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Another layout + Alice

Today I was reading Cathy's blog and the layout she had made for Aidan's 15th birthday blog post really caught my eye. The fact that she also gave a free digital template for the layout was a huge bonus and I wanted to use it straight away. My layout is a complete scraplift because I loved the way Cathy's looked.  

I had been wanting to put down my feelings about being involved during Claire's pregnancy and this layout gave me the chance to do just that. In all honesty, I think this is probably the most journalling I've put on any of my scrapbook layouts! I have so many more photos I want to scrap so I can see hybrid layouts could well be the way for me to go as they make things so much quicker.

These photos were taken last night after Craig got home from work. As I was going up stairs Alice kept smiling at me, so I got my camera for a couple of photos.

 This one was taken when she spotted her Mummy coming down the stairs :)

 Group photo - you can tell Craig loves it when I get my camera out ;o)

When Alice was first put in this bouncy chair she looked so little - not so much these days!
Her fingers tend to be in her mouth all the time at the moment and we think we can feel a little tooth cutting it's way through the top gum.

Who could resist this cute little face? :o)

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Post and Spring Flowers

Today I received my Team Teal wristband to wear in honour of Deb's Mum, Marti, who has cancer.  I am proud to have been chosen as one of the people who have received the band and will be wearing it daily. Marti, I hope you know we are all thinking of you and keeping you in our prayers as you fight your battle against cancer. xx

I received my copy of Ideal Home magazine in the post earlier this week and this little notebook came as a free gift - how cute is that!  I've been using it today as I start jotting down ideas for a project I'm thinking of doing. More about that in another post, one day. ;o)   Let's just say Etsy may be involved at some stage!

 We've had some lovely weather over the last few days and while the sun was out our tulips started to open. I had just brought in the washing one evening when I saw them again and decided to take a few photos. These two are my favourites.

I have been told by Emily that she expects a mention on my blog today as, at school, they had their inter-form netball tournament and Emily's form/class came 2nd out of 9 classes - well done Yr 9PHZ!

Now I need to go and feed the animals (I'm half an hour late!) and make a start on dinner.
Oh! Remember that clean desk I showed you the other day? Hmm, not so clean any more :o(  I wish I was more organised/tidier ;o)

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